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March 8. In Dunlap's field, to immediate right of R.R. about 100 yds. from from cattle-guard at N. end, found on top of bank a Q. discolor covered with the gall Q. brassica. Also noticed the cottonwood there covered with the [[underline]] vagabunda [[/underline]] gall [no new ones [[diy?]] 1. 1868]

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Catkins open some [[underline]] Q. globulus [[/underline]] galls gathered fall of 1866. found a horny cynip. larva in the central cell of 2 of them.

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  March 31. The apple-twigs soaped Nov. 1866 now have plenty of scales containing sound white eggs, some of which are loose & scatter out when the scale is lifted.

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Cankerworm in Dane Co. Wisc. (Madison) from I. Y. Smith, specimens [[male symbol, female symbol]] recd. April 10th.

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April 13. ^ [[insertion]] Pseudo- [[/insertion]] [[underline]] Coccus ? Azaleae [[/underline]] n. sp. Mature [[female symbol]], just beginning to lay eggs. Length .09 inch, 1/2 longer than wide, [[image]] side view, [[image]] back view; segments distinct, thor. segments much the largest. Legs 6, wide apart. Rostrum distinct, with a distinct long seta sometimes protruded from it. Color Lake red, or Carmine blood-red. Eggs (but few yet laid) small, oval, 1 3/4 times as long as wide, pale lake red: [[female symbol]] covered above with a ^ [[insertion]] thing papery [[/insertion]] milk-white envelop, rougher & more cottony outside, smoother & more paper-like inside. General shape of envelope, nearly that of [[female symbol]] but rather more rounded at the ends. From W. C Flagg, on Azalea.

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one specimen distinctly alive, moving one of its legs repeatedly. Very like Westwood's figure of [[female symbol]] [[underline]] Pseudococcus. [[/underline]]

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  ([[?]]. II. p. 443, fig. 9) On May 17, this specm. having been gummed on a card, "naked" as recorded on label, had exuded flossy cotton from all parts of its body.

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April 16. Holcomb says "finds [[underline]] Phytocoris tinearis" [[/underline]] (specm. sent) "on Pear blossoms & on White flowers in the garden. Mrs. H. says they are a plague to her all through the summer. Mr. Rice says they are destructive to Grapes. 
  "I have today found 2 Curculios under some rough bark on a Pear tree." (see also p. 68 xx)

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April 20. Yellow Bell-flower tree. Paid all the worst limbs with Benzine. & the following labeled limbs as follows; to their tips from the label-string.

  No. 1.   Kerosene
      2.   Benzine
      3.   Linseed oil (+ 2 bottom boughs on E end 
           of NE espalier
      4.   ___________ + tar (1/2 & 1/2 - mix well
      5.   Lard
      6.   Benzine & tar (mix badly 1/2 & 1/2
      8.   Soft soap. (Soap won't mix with
           kerosene, nor will water, even with 
           Carb. Potash.)
     5&8   Put on with my hands; the rest with a 
           sash-brush.

     Dashed a wash-boiler-full of hot water (nearly boiling) by dippersful over espalier W of Yellow Bellflr, mostly on E [[?]] of the Espalier. A pretty warm day.

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